Statistic tracking firm NPD has revealed a list of the top ten video games sold in North America since it began recording data back in 1995. According to the firm, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is the third biggest seller in that time.

In the data provided to Industry Gamers, San Andreas is the only Grand Theft Auto title ranked in the top ten. Wii Play and Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock managed to beat it to the higher spots.

It's interesting that Grand Theft Auto IV doesn't make an appearance in the list, despite recording extremely impressive early sales. It looks like the game lost a significant amount of momentum following its huge launch and the incredible success of Nintendo's Wii games can't have helped either.

GTA4 didn't sell as many copies cause it was buggy at the start during launch, and the patches that came out were too late to fix it, and thats what killed the potential interest in the game, not to mention it needs a good performing system to run. the multiplayer servers proves that cause thier is hardly any active :(

GTASA was a bigger hit because it was easier on computers and alot less buggy.